The last we heard of Jho Low, Hollywood party-man, and Malaysia’s most generous gift-giver, was that the DOJ was alleging that he spent a whopping USD703 million in 6 years. Later, his family won a court battle that allowed them to fight the U.S. for control of the seize assets.

Screenshot from BBC.com

But then on June 15th 2017, the DOJ filed a new complaint with the court, announcing that they are looking to seize an additional USD540 million worth of assets linked to misused funds from 1MDB. This brings the total assets sought to USD1.8 billion (RM7.7 bil). Keep in mind, that this stuff isn’t just being seized from Jho Low tho. Other people named in this new document include Riza Aziz, Leonardo Dicaprio, and Miranda Kerr. But this time, there’s something strange going on in particular, with the wife of Malaysian Official 1…but we’ll talk more about that later.

First, let’s take a look at some of the new items the DOJ wants to seize from 1MDB proceeds.

Along with the announcement, the DOJ published the longest press release we’ve ever seen (251 pages!) containing both the new and old items they want to seize. Also alleged in the document, is the detailed tracing of the 1MDB funds. Each transaction made is provided with information including where and when the money was transferred, who was involved, and how much. So let’s see what new things were allegedly bought this time.

The new items, known as NEW SUBJECT ASSETS. Screenshot from DOJ press release.

According to the document, the new items DOJ wants to seize are:

A luxury yachtnamed Equanimity, fitted with a helicopter pad, a movie theater and capable of fitting 50 people (more than $250 million)

Page 11-134 – The MONEY TRAIL of how the money was allegedly misappropriated

Page 134-246 – An INVESTIGATION into how the money led to these assets and who the assets ended up with

For example, Page 2 lists the Equanimity yacht as a seizable asset, and Page 191 shows HOWthe yacht was acquired from misappropriated funds.

Screenshots from DOJ document page 2 and 191.

So in the INVESTIGATION part of the document on page 224 and 228, two jewelry items are described totaling $28.6 mil (RM122.31 million),

A22-carat pink diamond necklace ($27,300,000) and

27 assorted gold necklaces (totaling $1,300,000).

But strangely, they were not mentioned anywhere on the LIST of items to be seized.

Screenshot from DOJ press release page 224 and 228.

And it gets even stranger.

If you haven’t noticed already, both the items not in the list were tied to the wife of Malaysian Official 1. After doubletriplequadruple checking the document many times, it gets even STRANGER because these were the only “2” items missing from the new list.

So what’s going on here? Why are they going after aunty Low and Miranda’s bling-bling, and not the ones bought on behalf of the wife of Malaysian Official 1?

There was another discrepancy too, so we sent ANOTHER email to the DOJ

Maybe it’s the problem with our MAT-MATIK skill, but we couldn’t get to USD540 million as reported by the news when we tried to sum up the value of the new items. We only got around USD451.43 million, and that’s including the jewelry of MO1’s wife.

Because they responded to us when we reached out to them the last time, we sent another email to the DOJ for clarification on the MO1 wife’s jewelry and the total value of the assets.

Sadly for the last 48 hours, they have not managed to get back to us yet.

So what’s going to happen to the RM122.31 million jewelry?

Before anyone gets too excited, The DOJ themselves would like to remind you that this civil forfeiture complaint is only an allegation of a crime. So for now, the people accused by the DOJ are innocent until proven guilty.

But outside of Malaysia, it seems like some of these allegations might hold true, at least Hollywood actor Leonardo Dicaprio seems to think so. He has already surrendered the Marlon Brando Oscar’s award to the DOJ, and is in the process of handing over both the Picasso paintingand Basquiat collage gifted to him.

So if we want to know what’s going to happen to MO1’s wife’s jewelry, it’s best if we follow the trail of Miranda Kerr’s diamonds. So far, Miranda Kerr has not spoken out on the matter. It’s said she will be cooperating with the authorities, but she still has all the gifts.